Aplicação de um sistema multiagente para redução do desperdício de copos descartáveis

Abstract

Nowadays, one of the most discussed subjects in brazilian society is recycling, because each brazilian produces a large amount of trash which not always receive the proper destiny. Industry, schools and universities have a huge amount of persons that use their installations, such as restaurants, offices, rooms, and so on. With this, there is a reasonable consume of recyclable material. Daily at the University Restaurant of a Federal University localized at the countryside of the state of Parana disposable cups are used to serve beverage in the mealtime of about 900 people. About 18 hundred cups are used per month, summing up to 216 hundred cups in a year., With this, we may wonder that environmental situation (in terms of recycling) in our country is a problem. However, technologies and computing approaches are being used to help the planning and decision making of different solutions. One example of these approaches is MultiAgent Systems (MAS), which can be applied in several areas, including environmental.The aim of this work is to simulate one MultiAgent System which can be applied in the case study of the University Restaurant, in order to contribute with the process of reducing the waste of disposable cups.Our approach the Tropos Methodology was applied in order to obtain a corresponding model. Besides, the NetLogo tool was used by means of generate several computation simulations from the corresponding environment. One of the major results is the impact of social influence in the environment, showing the influence between different social groups. In our work, the two main groups is divided into those people that make a reasonable use of a resource and those other people that waste a resource. Yet we shall highlight that our MAS model could be extended in order to cope with different kinds of resouces, while not being restricted to disposable cups.